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Yaje Ngundam

College Park,MD

Summary

Seasoned Systems Administrator with three year background in Information Technology. And concentration in Linux Progressive experience marked by continuous contributions above and beyond requirements. Committed to ensuring seamless deployments, robust security, and efficient resource utilization, I am excited to contribute my adaptable expertise to drive success in Azure-based initiatives while continuously expanding my cloud technology skill set.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience

Work History

Linux System Administrator

SoftConcept INC
03.2021 - Current
  • Provide support for Echo-Web, a web-based application that supports the Federal Transit Administration’s grant payment operation
  • Experience with supporting and managing RedHat VMs running in a VMware environment
  • Develop and maintain accurate documentation for internal procedures and services
  • Diagnosing, monitoring performance and network related issues of servers using tools such as ps, top, and netstat
  • Perform standard system administrator tasks, such as troubleshooting and patching
  • Package management using tools such as, yum and rpm
  • Demonstrate troubleshooting abilities on connectivity issues related to firewall when deploying the Echo-Web Application
  • Configuring and installing monitoring tools such as, SCOM and
  • Varonis
  • Review audit logs daily to monitor system performance
  • Develop and maintain accurate documentation of current standard procedures
  • Disaster recovery management
  • Managing file and directories, including setting permissions, such as read, write, and execute for owners, groups, and others
  • Create and administer user accounts, groups, manage user security, password recovery, aging, and complexity
  • Review monthly Nessus scan reports to ensure that Echo-Web servers are compliant with DOT policy
  • Update Linux OS patches and ensure compliance with STIG requirements
  • Implementing Firewall rules for servers to enable communication with applications
  • Create SNMPV3 user with hashed authentication and encryption
  • Configuring on SNMP on the servers and adding the devices to
  • What’s Up Gold monitoring service through SNMPV3
  • What’s Up
  • Gold provides application, server, and network monitoring
  • Maintain scripts to automate administrative tasks
  • Enable PIV login to implement two factor authentication on all servers to provide an added level of security.

Linux System Administrator

Consulting Inc
01.2020 - 03.2021
  • Installation, configuration, and deployment of CentOS and Ubuntu servers and workstations
  • Performing standard system administration tasks, such as troubleshooting and installing packages using rpm, apt and yum
  • Performing upgrades on CentOS and Ubuntu operating systems
  • Management of virtual workstations on VMware
  • Developed knowledge-based articles that solved common system issues
  • Monitor and troubleshoot Linux Operating system service for customers, including SSH, NTPD, Samba, Winbind etc
  • Installation, configuration, and management of software
  • Develop scripts to automated administrative tasks and application deployments
  • Implement PIV login access to Operating system on all CentOS and Ubuntu servers
  • Multiplatform volume management using LVM and Swap
  • Creating volume groups, logical volumes and extending them using logical volume management
  • Atlassian Products: service desk
  • JIRA, and confluence.

Education

Bachelor’s Degree - Biology

Bowie State University

Skills

  • IP Addressing and Subnetting
  • Testing Applications
  • Logical Volume Management
  • SNMP
  • Multi-User System Management
  • Linux
  • Red Hat Virtualization
  • Multifactor Authentication
  • Operating Systems RHEL/CentOS/Ubuntu
  • VMware workstation
  • Bash Shell Scripting
  • Log analysis and performance

Certifications

  

Clearance Level: Public Trust 

Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) 2021 

VMware vSphere: Install, Configure, Manage [v6.7] Feb 2022 

Microsoft Azure Admin AZ-104 (On going) 


Timeline

Linux System Administrator

SoftConcept INC
03.2021 - Current

Linux System Administrator

Consulting Inc
01.2020 - 03.2021

Bachelor’s Degree - Biology

Bowie State University
Yaje Ngundam